Word: englisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Liberals, who had held seven of the seats that were speckled across seven of the country's ten provinces, managed to hold only two-both in the party's French-speaking redoubt of Quebec. Trudeau's party was completely wiped out in seven by-elections in English-speaking Ontario, where the next general election must be won. The country's chief opposition party, the Conservatives, won ten seats-including all but one of the Ontario constituencies. The Liberals' share of the popular vote dropped to 30.5%, vs. 43% in the 1974 national election. The opposition...
...laws allowing partial deductions for property taxes and mortgage interest from federal income taxes. Despite his party's traditional inability to win votes in Quebec, Clark confidently declared last week: "The Conservatives alone can form a national government. The Liberals have lost any capacity to regain ground in English Canada...
Wojtyla is tireless, sometimes putting in 20-hour days, and known as a voracious reader. He is fluent in Latin, Italian, English, French and German, as well as Polish. Not Russian? Said a priest in his entourage when asked that question last week: "No Pole speaks Russian?but everyone understands it." A flip-up desk allows him to write while being driven in his car. He has a disconcerting habit of reading or writing while carrying on a conversation?and then displaying total recall of what was said...
...fellow Pole who heads the Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research. Wojtyla is an expert in phenomenology, a theory of knowledge that bases scientific objectivity upon the unique nature of subjective human perception. He has written a major work on it, Person and Act (1969), which Tymieniecka is translating into English. Summarizing the Pope's complex thought, she says: "He stresses the irreducible value of the human person. He finds a spiritual dimension in human interaction, and that leads him to a profoundly humanistic conception of society...
...Nazis' scheme is to smuggle to the Soviets lists of Britons who have supported the German war effort. Their hope is to inflame Stalin's deep distrust of his allies. The plan goes agley when the documents, hand-carried to Sweden, are used instead to blackmail English industrialists...